Nostalgia 
Terror Attacks(0)
Lack of political will to handle terror in India.
By ASHALI VARMA
In February, there was a terror attack in Hyderabad where at least 17 people were killed and dozens injured. When I left India to work abroad in the 1980s, we had few instances of such attacks. It is completely unacceptable that in the last 10 [...]
“Mother, I want to Live.” SAID DELHI’S BRAVEHEART
Women in India will be safe only when attitudes change.
By ASHALI VARMA
It saddens me to write about the brutal and truly horrifying gang rape that has taken India by storm. Just a kilometre from where we stay, a young girl was not only gang raped by six men in a moving bus but also so [...]
Cinema, Cuisine & Culture
India’s growing soft power.
By ASHALI VARMA
Working for The Earth Times, as a journalist in the United States meant extensive travel abroad and covering stories on sustainable development in different parts of the world. I will never forget one experience, which could have been really scary had it not been for Raj Kapoor’s song Mera jhoota hai Japani (My shoes are Japanese).
The Population Bomb
Can India support two billion people in a country one-third the size of the US?
By ASHALI VARMA
It has been five years since I returned to India, and there is one issue that scares me more than anything else – it is the way politicians are looking at our burgeoning youth population and calling it [...]